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Back In the World

The phrase back in the world therefore as used in the book to illustrates the coming back into the society form a different society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1357

Pelasgus’ Conflict in The Suppliants by Aeschylus

Since he has not had the time to asses the strength and weaknesses of the pursuing band, the likelihood that his Kingdom could be overrun in the pretext of re-capturing the girls is eminent.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1201

The Contemporary Indian Society

According to Proust this portrays the oppression of the poor by the rich in the society because as it occurs later that, the producer of the television show did not have the money to give [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1725

“The Tale of the Wife of Bath” by Geoffrey Chaucer

In summary, the Wife of Bath has a diverse personal attributes ranging from intelligent to wickedness with an appealing physical appearance and from her description or autobiography, she is an expensive, independent woman from England.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

The Epic of Gilgamesh Poem Analysis

Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

“Picture This” the Novel by Joseph Heller

This in other words implied that given the role of the media which to this day is to monitor the activities of the government, Pericles having initiated a war did not want the interference of [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 821

The Tempest and the Rape of the Rock

On the other hand, the poem the rape of the lock by Alexander Pope ridicules the habits of the upper-class people.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult

The three make their pact while in the high school concerning how they can find a way to a medical school to pursue their career in medicine.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1079

Dr. Tram and the Vietnam Conflict

From her perspective we learn of how the locals felt about the American involvement in the war, we learn that she hated the Americans with a passion for the killings and bombings they did to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 726

Lessons from the dreams of peace

The idea that she attended a great proportion of soldiers depicted her caring nature, which is important in life. She is a great peacemaker and ready to intervene in the fight, despite the challenges.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 645

Leadership and Commonality Displayed by Ivo Andric

It is with profound easiness that the distinctive characteristics emerge, with the main objective of a central system of assessment for any actions taken by superiors over the subjects Brief Overview of the Story The [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1378

“Little Red Cap” by Grimm Brothers

The authors use the words 'to obey' to emphasize the fault of the little girl's mother and her way of girls' upbringing.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Impact of Ten Commandments on American Life

The Ten Commandments have as well dictated the secular lives of the Americans since they have been incorporated in the legal framework of the American history.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1229

Kate DiCamillo’s Life and Books

At her twenties she moved to Minnesota and it is during this time that she missed the warmth that she had experienced in Florida.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

The Concept of True Love

Such an effect is suggestive of the fact that in essence people only consider love as love when there is a thought that tries to explain it.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1369

The Book “The Making of a Quagmire” by David Halberstam

The U.S.press seemingly stood in support of the cold war ideology, opposed to the government, thereby making the believers of the idea that 'the media lost the Vietnamese war' never to relent in the accusations.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 695

Louis L’ Amour Books

Hardy had picketed the stallion Himself, and with sudden guilt he remembered that in his hurry to return to the supper fire he had struck the picketed-pin only a couple of sharp blows".
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1374

The Rose Tattoo By Tennessee Williams

The main point of the story is the importance of and the lessons that can be taken from having humility in ones life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2261

The Hour by Michael Cunningham

Woolf wakes up in the morning she is reluctant to look herself in the mirror because she thinks her reflection will remind her of her failures and discourage her from writing.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2451

Francois- Marie Arouet De Voltaire – Candide

This is a story written down by Voltaire whose main motive of writing was to capture and ridicule the political inclinations of the time, illustrating the political and philosophical controversies of the eighteenth century.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 890

Three Cups of Tea

The book details the author's shift from mountaineering to a humanitarian mission aimed at reducing poverty levels and championing for girls' education in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

Ethnicity Issues in William Shakespeare’s Titus Adronicus

The inciting incident of Titus Andronicus is Titus's inflexible sacrifice of Alarbus, the eldest son of captive Goth queen Tamora, to his soldiers, an action which forms the engine of the narrative and the justification [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1632

“The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri

The evidence from the novel "The Namesake" suggests that, there was a change in Gogol, when he later realizes his Indian culture.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Year of the Flood

While the Geneva Convention on Human Rights has banned the use and development of biological agents as a means of warfare, thus sparing humanity the possibility of dying due to a virulent disease, the fact [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1262

Children literature timeline paper

Many factors have been considered to determine the depth of literature that the child is exposed to with much of this being centered on age and what the adults perceive the child to be.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 684

Travelling Through the Dark by William Stafford

Making a choice is always a real challenge for the speaker leading him to the analysis of the meaning of darkness, which is often associated with uncertainty, ambiguity, and the unknown.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

Tim O’Brien: The True War Storyteller

In How to Tell a True War Story, author Tim O'Brien directs the reader's attention to the idea of truth, not simply in the telling and retelling of certain events from the Vietnam War that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1639

Toeing the Line between Norm and Abnormality: Who’s Fat?!

As the plot of the story unwinds, the conflict gains more shades; starting from the confrontation between Louise and the society, it slowly glows into the confrontation within Louise herself: subject to the evaluations of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 675

Maya Angelou’s Journey Towards Acceptance of Self

In this paper, I will aim to confirm the soundness of namely Walker's suggestion, while pointing out to the fact that, by the end of Angelou's novel, Maya did not only become fully self-aware individual, [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1162

Henry David Thoreau: Modern Literary Canon

Unfortunately, the book failed to sell as he had anticipated and therefore in the end, he remained with many copies, which were a great loss to him both in terms of money used in printing [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1386

Oedipus the King

The king is in conflict with himself. The king's behavior is in conflict with the character of Oedipus king.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

The Form of a Poem

The reason for this is the need for different ways to express the longing of the heart and the soul. Sometimes it is better to sing; sometimes it is best to speak of what was [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1228

The Different Literary Periods

It was the wakeup call for revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and a sound of establishment at the close of it.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Narrator’s Changing Character in “The Yellow Wallpaper”

The story thus portrays the transformative reading potential in that had the narrator failed to realize that the reading has the potential to transform her. The yellow paper helped to transform the narrator in that [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

The Use of Ethos

Convincing or persuading the reader to believe what the author has written is always tough and this is due to the fact that different readers have different opinions and perspectives about life. For Sidney, he [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1446

The American: Gender Theme

According to the ensuing plot, the transition of the world from the old to the new era has greatly affected the way women behave.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2231

Summary Atlas Shrugged Part One and Two

The author focuses on the theme of the role of human brain in the 'being' of humans. Rand also successfully brings out the philosophy of objectivism by using a number of themes, which are philosophical [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 314

Super, Sad, and Real

For instance, in the relationship between Lenny and Eunice the only means of communication between them is through electronics devices like apparati; email messages or letters and journals.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Management and Leadership in Nickel and Dimed

In conclusion, the book, Nickel and Dimed, points out ineffective management and leadership styles that are being practiced by most corporations in America in order to maintain their wages at low levels.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Wiesel’s Changing Understanding of God

The faith that Wiesel had in God was enormous, in spite of the increasing abuse and hatred that the Nazis had for the Jews.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 788

Use of Reversal Technique in Literature

Without any prompting, the thin man lets the reader and the fat man know that he has now been promoted to the 8th grade, which is a big feat according to him.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1202

Epic of Gilgamesh

The aim of the mythic expedition of the male protagonist is to discover special understanding which will re-establish steadiness to him and the entire society.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1176

“The Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain

In other words, Satan's attitude to people is explained with the peculiarities of his position, supernatural power and corresponding perspective on human society.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2220

Trends in “Love is a Fallacy”

The raccoon coat seems to have been the trend associated particularly with the college male student at the time that the writer is in college.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 741

The Power of Women in the Society

The power of the woman does not exist for the sake of it but also has the power to appeal and attract those who are looking for solace.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1241

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In this regard, Coleridge has managed to explain to the non artistic the mystic and the complexity of truth as defined by the creative genius so to this extent, nature is very useful in understanding [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1915

Understanding Environmental Problems through Poetry

One of the remarkable pieces of poetry dedicated to the impact of man on nature is Sonnet; the poet voices his regrets about the Industrial Revolution and its effect on the connection between people and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 701

Elements of high fantasy literature

Atl is among the few people to overcome the plague and as a result his sick father initiates and hands him the leadership of the tribe.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 806

War and Nature in Literature

At war time, pleasure is derived from the anguish and agony that is directed to the enemy as stated in Wilfred Owen's poem.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1048

Tom Sawyers through perspective of Don Quixote

The older set of people who chance to read the novel for the first time will quickly understand the expert use of satire but it is the other facet of the novel that will grab [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2982

The feminine mystique- Betty Friedan

They worked to have the rights of the women upheld and respected in regards to the norms that governed their society at the time.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1943

The multiculturalism into which American Literature has developed

There is lack of the exclusivities in teaching methods and literature learning in current American literature. There is an overwhelming change over the confined nature of past-institutionalized form of study where the teachers in the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Story of Drunken Girlhood

It is possible to state that the alcoholism discussed in the book along with the age considered there makes the book focused on the sociological and psychological problem.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 946

Charles Bukowski: A View from the Gutter

One of the most consistent criticisms hurled Bukowski's way, and one of the justifications for his bad reputation, appears as the observation that his work appeals to those who do not understand, or value, the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness

The thematic core of his writings examined the trials and tribulations of the human spirit/soul in relation to duty and honor as well as the pervading affects of world empires.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1738

Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs

The directing of the play managed to extend the subtext through the portrayal of actors as adults and children. In addition, the director strived to render the play as the funnier property through deploying Eugene [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Lewis Carroll and Wonderland

The book "Through the Looking Glass" is a continuation of the story of Alice as she becomes a young woman. The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" were essentially stories [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1711

“The Sound of a Voice” by Henry Hwang

The company that the woman gets from the man is the root cause of her death. As the woman enters the house to find the man dressing, she assumes he is leaving and gets annoyed [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1205

Conflict in Everyday Use

In the very beginning of the story one can already see the reason why Tuten disapproved of Dee's actions and supported the desire of Mama and Maggie to continue with their way of life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1176

Parsley: Rita Dove Analysis

A poem that touches the very depth of the soul and makes the heartstrings ring with the sudden wistfulness, it tells a story of the horrifying cruelty that can lurk in the depth of the [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1633

Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

The white man is willing to let the black man in to his space but not to benefit the black man but to humiliate him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 743

“Utopia” by Thomas More

The name of the utopian land is the Green Spit; its inhabitants refer to it simply as "The Spit". Most people in Barrel work at forestry, maintaining the rainforests, or zoology, looking after the animals [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Swahili-Speaking People

The main purpose of the paper is to consider three sources about Swahili speaking community and to understand whether the arguments presented in those works support or contradict the ideas presented in the article The [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway

The American man manages to manipulate Jig psychologically by telling her not to abort if she does not want to because he senses her hesitance, "I think it's the best thing to do.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

The dark side of life in America

She goes ahead to explain the flow of events between the time she leaves her home and gradually takes the author through her experience as a low-income restaurant waitress upto the time that she throws [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Barn Burning: Why Does Sarty Finally Report on His Father?

Faulkner's choice of the archetypal setting of a wagon mowing constantly from one place to another renders the message of the instability and vacillations that Sarty is experiencing in the formation of his morals.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 945

Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Movement

In 1931, she collaborated with Langston Hughes in the production of the play "Mule Bone," which was never published because of the tension between the two writers, and in 1934, she authored her first novel, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

The Tale of Genji

In chapter two of the book, Genji and his wife live in Sanjo at the house of his father- in law. This is an indicator of how the two individuals are obsessed with women as [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1366

Behind the Counter: Falling Behind the Trend

In his article "Behind the Counter", Eric Schlosser argues that the fast food industry is behind the country's trend toward unsupportable earnings.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 594

I Stand Here Ironing

It is essentially a story about internal struggles that a mother faces and the need to redefine herself and her understanding of this role as she reflects on the life of her daughter.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1926

Necessary Target: Theatre

The highlight of the play is about the role of women in the society. The published play tells the stories of many Bosnian women who had to go through the aftermaths of the war.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

The Kite Runner as a Metaphor

The kite runner and the kite fighter restrict the movement of the kite in order for it to move in an orderly manner.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1977

Analyzing the Concept of Terrorism

It is worth noting that a clear definition of terrorism is mostly subjective and is rarely objective due to the fact that it is an act of political violence.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

Nature as the Mean of Expression in Romanticism

The period of Romanticism is characterized by its address to nature, in other words, the world was perceived through the nature."It is characterized by a shift from the structured, intellectual, reasoned approach of the 1700's [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 888